Test Automation Job Trends in Oldham

Automated Testing
Manchester > Oldham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oldham requiring Test Automation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oldham 10.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.26% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - -
Manchester median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oldham

Test Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Oldham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39 42 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oldham 97.50% 95.45% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 13 9 22
10th Percentile - - £37,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £22,500 £40,948
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £25,000 £48,190
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -48.12% -1.65%
75th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £60,800
90th Percentile £57,301 £67,750 £67,100
Manchester median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.73% -8.33% +9.09%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Oldham

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oldham.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Oldham

Test Automation
Salary Trend in Oldham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oldham citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oldham citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oldham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
1 3 (75.00%) Maven
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
1 3 (75.00%) SonarQube
1 3 (75.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) JPA
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
1 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) Redux
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) CSS3
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) Jest
2 2 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) Sass
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (50.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Case Management
4 1 (25.00%) Coaching
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) CRM
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Solace